BTjunkie, one of the world's most popular BitTorrent sites, has voluntarily shut down following recent anti-piracy moves

Swedish Supreme Court denies Pirate Bay defendants an appeal, finalising the fines and jail terms sentenced in 2010

Hosting companies Cogent and Carpathia agree to preserve user files for further two weeks

Legitimate files on the Megaupload site may be deleted this week, say US federal prosecutors

Pirate Parties rally MegaUpload users for potential joint lawsuit against "unjustified" closure of file-sharing site

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's fight against extradition to the US takes a blow after judge denies him bail

The ramifcations of the MegaUpload shutdown continue to be felt as Filesonic disables file sharing and its reward programme

European vice president Neelie Kroes says SOPA was "bad legislation", while Euro MPs call US Congress to account

The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act is rising in popularity as an alternative to SOPA and PIPA

SOPA may have gone but there are still laws and policies which impose US standards on the rest of the world, says Eric Doyle